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Katja Wiech is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their work is situated primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions also spanning Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pharmacology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

They have contributed extensively to topics related to Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Empathy and Medical Education, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Trait anxiety is associated with hidden state inference during aversive reversal learning (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Effects of open-label placebos on test performance and psychological well-being in healthy medical students: a randomized controlled trial (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • The Effect of Temporal Information on Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia (2020, Psychosomatic Medicine)
  • Pain-related reorganization in the primary somatosensory cortex of patients with postherpetic neuralgia (2022, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Is There a Neuropathic-Like Component to Endometriosis-Associated Pain? Results From a Large Cohort Questionnaire Study (2021, Frontiers in Pain Research)

Frequently appearing publication venues in their work include:

  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Katja Wiech include:

  • Ulrike Bingel
  • Katharina Schmidt
  • Katarina Forkmann
  • Ondrej Zika
  • Julian Kleine-Borgmann

Best Publications

  • Neurocognitive aspects of pain perception.

    Katja Wiech;Markus Ploner;Markus Ploner;Irene Tracey

  • The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

    Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel;Vishvarani Wanigasekera;Katja Wiech;Roisin Ni Mhuircheartaigh

  • The influence of negative emotions on pain: Behavioral effects and neural mechanisms

    Katja Wiech;Irene Tracey

  • Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus.

    Andrea W M Evers;Luana Colloca;Charlotte Blease;Marco Annoni

  • Anterior Insula Integrates Information about Salience into Perceptual Decisions about Pain

    Katja Wiech;Chia Shu Lin;Kay H. Brodersen;Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel

  • Deconstructing the sensation of pain: The influence of cognitive processes on pain perception.

    Katja Wiech

  • Threatening a rubber hand that you feel is yours elicits a cortical anxiety response

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Katja Wiech;Katja Wiech;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Opponent appetitive-aversive neural processes underlie predictive learning of pain relief.

    Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Martin Koltzenburg;Katja Wiech

  • Anxiety Reduction through Detachment: Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Effects

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Hugo D. Critchley;Ben Seymour

  • Tactile discrimination, but not tactile stimulation alone, reduces chronic limb pain

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Nadia M. Zalucki;Nadia M. Zalucki;Katja Wiech

  • Anterolateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Analgesic Effect of Expected and Perceived Control over Pain

    Katja Wiech;Raffael Kalisch;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Burkhard Pleger

  • Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans

    Markus Ploner;Michael C. Lee;Katja Wiech;Ulrike Bingel

  • Anticipatory brainstem activity predicts neural processing of pain in humans

    Merle T. Fairhurst;Katja Wiech;Paul Dunckley;Irene Tracey

  • Levels of appraisal: a medial prefrontal role in high-level appraisal of emotional material.

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Hugo D. Critchley;Raymond J. Dolan

  • An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system

    Katja Wiech;Miguel Farias;Miguel Farias;Guy Kahane;Nicholas Shackel

  • The effect of tactile discrimination training is enhanced when patients watch the reflected image of their unaffected limb during training.

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Katja Wiech

  • The neural basis of intuitive and counterintuitive moral judgment.

    Guy Kahane;Katja Wiech;Nicholas Shackel;Miguel Farias

  • Neural Correlates of Self-distraction from Anxiety and a Process Model of Cognitive Emotion Regulation

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Katrin Herrmann;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Pain, decisions, and actions: a motivational perspective

    Katja Wiech;Irene Tracey

  • Decoding the perception of pain from fMRI using multivariate pattern analysis

    Kay Henning Brodersen;Katja Wiech;Ekaterina I. Lomakina;Ekaterina I. Lomakina;Chia-shu Lin

  • Supplementary Materials for The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

    Ulrike Bingel;Vishvarani Wanigasekera;Katja Wiech;Roisin Ni Mhuircheartaigh

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Ulrike Bingel
Ulrike Bingel University of Duisburg-Essen
Markus Ploner
Markus Ploner Technical University of Munich
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Jonathan C W Brooks
Jonathan C W Brooks University of Bristol
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London

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